Man you guys. I had the exact same experience.
I was stoked to get Vespertine months before the release date
but was not impressed with it at all. Disappointed actually.
I only listened to it a few times.
When it got a full release in the shops I picked it up and it
sounded much different than the Soulseek version.
I was quite surprised.
So can anything be learned from this? Like free music doesn't
stop people from buying it in the shops? How many of you are
*not* going to buy Drukqs because you already got it on Soulseek?
Same thing with Confield - did you buy the full release after you'd already
had it on MP3 for a few months? I certainly did. NOT to bring up this age
old debate but damn, I'm so sick of the lackluster quality of 128k MP3's
No high-end, no bottom. These things sound like shit on a good stereo.
Shimone/Justes
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Aaron D Meyers" <adm226@nyu.edu>
To: "Adam Piontek" <apiontek@yahoo.com>
Cc: <idm@hyperreal.org>
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 10:34 AM
Subject: Re: [idm] bjork vespertine on soulseek (was Re: lists)
quoted 58 lines Yea... I downloaded it on soulseek a ways back sometime around May or
> Yea... I downloaded it on soulseek a ways back sometime around May or
> something and I remember it being marked as something like a "rough
> promo" or being warned by someone about that. I recall the mix sounded
> really rough and weird in places so after a listen or two, I just
> trashed the thing and figured I'd try again after the official
> release. So maybe thats still the same thing floating around on
> soulseek. Still haven't picked it up at the store or tried to
> redownload. I guess I should do that soon.
>
> -Aaron
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Adam Piontek <apiontek@yahoo.com>
> Date: Friday, September 28, 2001 1:22 pm
> Subject: [idm] bjork vespertine on soulseek (was Re: lists)
>
> > --- Ben Knowles <knowles@Colorado.EDU> wrote:
> > > things i downloaded from soulseek that i thought i
> > > would be impressed
> > > with and was:
> > ...
> > > 2) bjork - vespertine (understated in a good way)
> >
> > You know, I downloaded this from soulseek as well.
> > Then I took a look at the album at Amazon, and noticed
> > the track titles were all different. Then I decided
> > to try the RealAudio samples at Amazon, and found that
> > the music was also different.
> >
> > So then I bought the CD, and found that the real thing
> > was much better than what I had downloaded from
> > soulseek.
> >
> > I haven't actually compared them explicitly to find
> > out if the music is completely different or if the
> > tracks are just mistitled and in the wrong order, but
> > I just thought anyone who got Vespertine from Soulseek
> > might want to know, and maybe check what they got
> > versus the samples at Amazon...
> >
> >
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